Now the person that all the investigators are giving credit to is longtime San Jose PoliceSergeant Jason kid well. He says he spent hours of his own time looking for the serial arsonist who set at least 12 fires, including one at a massive warehouse, a church and several homes. Sergeant kid well says he entered specifics about the crime and the man seen on surveillance videos around the fires and found that Patrick Brennan fit the description. Government into each one, plug in the information and then when you get that information, it sort of layers on top of each other and he just was consistently in that area. He fit the profile. Had the exact physical description. Reporter brennan was in the Santa Clara County arson database for setting 16 fires back in 1999. Detectives started watching him on sunday and i rested him at his Mobile Home Park wednesday night. Brimmen is scheduled to make his First Court Appearance later today. Live in san jose, matt keller, abc7 news. 4 31 now. A 1700 acre wildfire burning in the foothills northeast of los angeles has flared up and continues to threaten homes in azblooz zplachlt some of the 3700 people evacuated were allowed to return home in glenn dora last night. Five homes have been destroyed, 17 structures damaged. This morning, the fire is 30 contain bud no longer growing much three campers being held for starting the fire had their bail raised last night from 20,000 to half a Million Dollars each. Abc7 News ReporterKatie Marzullo will have more on the judges decision ant fire fight at the top of the hour. Happening today, governor jerry brown is expected to make a major announcement this morning. Sources say he will declare a statewide drought emergency. That would allow him to seek federal help as the state faces its third dry winter in a row. Local water managers and central californiagoers have been you recalling him to make the call. He would have flexibility deciding the states water priorities. An Alarming Number of pedestrian deaths in San Francisco has city officials taking action to do something about t since december, more that half dozen people have been kill old the streets. Abc7 News Reporter alan wong reports on the latest efforts. Drive up on you, turn own, go around you. Reporter last november, a car struck and killed a man in a wheelchair here at octavia boulevard in market street. He was one of 21 pedestrians killed in San Francisco last year, seven in the month of december alone, including 60yearold sophia lu killed in a tenderloin cross walk on new years eve. So i come bang this way every morning, making turns in front of me. Reporter now advocates want the city to adopt a program called vision zero with a goal to reduce these fatalities to zero through education and enforcement. The police chief admits to many drivers admit to being on the phone. Sadly, theres what lot of people being disstraungted and a lot of them have been getting tickets lately and theres going to be more of that. I started walking, next thing i know, i was flying, like on the car and through the air. Reporter she suffered brain damage when she was stuck in a cross walk last year. Police admit many drivers couldnt dont get a ticket unless Police Witness t you can get a suspended license and go to Traffic School for speeding tickets. Why not at least that for hitting a human being . Reporter police are promising to investigate and prosecute more cases while educating the public. But they are also reminding pedestrians to pay attention, even when they have the right of way. In San Francisco, alan wong, abc7 news. A prelimnary hearing is scheduled for running over and killing a menlo park couple out walking their dog last october. 54yearold marmry rightles was drunk when she hit the couple on chill costreet. Her blood alcohol content was significantly more than twice the legal limit. Investigators say rightsle was on probation at the time for a 2012 drunk driving conviction. Rightsle bless not guilty and held on 2 million bail. An east bay teen accused of setting another student on fire on an ac traps silt bus will be tried as an adult a judge has rejected a motion to try 16yearold Richard Thomas in jewel knife court instead. Police say thomas say set sasha fleishmans clothes on fire last november as the 18yearold dozed on the bus. Sasha was wearing a skirt and does not identify as male or female. Thomas faces a hate crime enhan enhancement, accused of telling Police Officers he did it because he is homo phonetic. The Berkeley School disis spending 2 million on training and security devices a in the convenient of a campus shooting. A plan to send staffed members through armed intruder training and install new public address systems and locks in the schools. Live video cameras were consider bud rejected because of privacy concerns. This afternoon, the 49ers will wrap up the final practice in santa clara before heading to seattle for sundays nfc championship game that game is expected to be a defensive battle between two teams that had its leagues best defense. The 49ers hottest team in football having won eight straight games it the last three on the road, but the road to the super bowl goes through centurylink field, where the seahawks are 161 over the past two years. Seattle will have Home Field Advantage with their loud fans, known as the 12th man. Perfect, man. Perfect. And this is not perfect. Going to be a defensive game. Its going to be a showdown. The niners are scheduled to leave for seattle at 4 45 this afternoon. Abc and 7 sports anchor mike shumann will be with the 49ers in seattle for complete postgame coverage, another edition of vernons views with vernon davis. Shue is a former 49er and follow him on twitter for an inside look at the game. Shue was on a super bowl 49er team. By the way, defensive battle usually end 4s 535. Over under 39 points at one time. Dont quote me on that. That was earlier this week, not really a gambler. Onemonth outlook, see where we are in california. Notice our temperatures are more than likely going to be above average but what is really depressing, you look at our onemonth outlook for precipitation in the entire state, more likely below average. All right, look at todays day planner, next 12 hours, not quite as mild as yesterday, 30s and 40s, no 60s out there they come back rather quickly thanks to this sunshine. Records possible again today, upper 60s at 4 00 after hitting the throw mid70s notice afternoon hours a nice evening, i think you will have a fun time being outside, low to upper 50s. Move forward through the weekend, a holiday weekend. Yeah, see a pullback in temperatures, degree or two each day, low 70s, another chance of record, mid60s near 70 for sunday and high clouds monday. Okay. Lets bring leyla back in. We have mass transit already on time, as we talk about b. A. R. T. , ac transit, muni, everything running on time there, as we head a little bit farther out to the roadways, you can see traffic is all green, moving along at top speeds, so, not a bad drive really anywhere across the bay area w dough have some projects that are in the works but all in all, everything is nice and clear. Take a live look outside, here is this, going to be your san mateo bridge, you come away from hayward, into foster city at this time. You can see nice, clear commute, only gonna take but 12 minutes to head across the water into foster city. Eric, kristen . Thank you. It is 4 38. Next, 49er fans and the quest for six. The lengths some people are going to show off their playoff pride. President obama could be set to make a major make change to the nsa Surveillance Program. What it could mean for our privacy. A google glasswarer challenges a traff good friday morning to you, 4 41, abc7 morning news. A little chill in the air out there, in the east bay, as we got out the door this morning. Mikes gonna check that forecast and leylas tracking traffic on the bay bridge and elsewhere coming up. Developing overnight, president obama is set to deliver a speech later this morning that could dramatically impact the ns as Surveillance Program a Senior Administration official says the president will call for string the National Security agencys ability to store phone data for millions of americans. The official says mr. Obama will not say who should ultimately hold the data. Instead, he will call on the Intelligence Community and congress to consult on where it should be maintained. A president ial Commission Recommended moving the data to the Telephone Companies or a third party. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie faces a big test this weekend following the eruption of a political scandal in his home state. Christie is traveling to florida for a series of fundraisers as head of the Republican Governors Association it will mark christies first outofstate trip since the scandal involving lane closures at the George Washington bridge escalated. Investigators investigating the scape dal rush ewing 20 subpoenas to people and organizations, including you Bridget Kelly i christies deputy chief of staff, who he fired last week. New details in the massive at that time data breach that impacted target customers during the holidays. The wall street journal is reporting the malicious computer code used to hack into targets credit card readers was partly written in russian. And learneding it went undetected by Antivirus Software because it was written with features to hide the fact they were collecting data from magnetic strips on payment cards. It was made available on the black market last spring. Up 2070 million target customer also their personal information stolen in the attacks. A win win for the driver cited for using her google glass behind the wheel. Cecilia abad day, seen in file video, was ticketing for speeding and using her google glass device in october. Californias vehicle code prohibits a monitor screen being played in front of a driver a chicago judge dismissed the violation, along with the speeding charge against the san diego woman for lack of evidence. Legal experts say the case marks the first of whats prekicked to be many Court Battles over todays laws and technology gentleman. Diehard 49er fans are showing their true colors by getting tattoos in honor of the red and gold and getting a great deal at 49. Abc7 news anchor has the story. Reporter creative juices are flowing at silver needle studios in concord. The real die hard niners get tattoos. Reporter 49ers red and gold from the needle to the neck of 49ers faithful, all for the low, low price of 49. I always wanted to get a 49er tattoo, but when came up with the yad, hey this is my chance now, go down there and get t as long as we are in the postseason, gonna keep doing it again know keep us in our toes every day people come down, expect a wait, we will get you in and out. Reporter Orlando Figueroa decided to ink his forearm. I havent looked at it i forgot he was tattooing me, like i said. cause you are that tough . No, no, not at all. He is that good much. Reporter for those a little less bold that would be me, theres always a temporary tattoo. Now im a real niners fan. Look at that. Arent we cute . Reporter oh, and about that seahawks fan with the tattoo already declaring them this years super bowl champ . He is crazy. First off, he is gonna need a coverup, hopefully, he has a really good tattoo artist. Reporter the more traditional fans, gear is way to go and sports fever in camp bell is your ticket. I already have a jersey, so just looking for niner paraphernalia. Reporter this grandmother is just browsing. Her grandson is already good to go. Lucky 49er socks. His name is christian. Reporter you cant argue with cute. Alma gates, abc7 news. We will be champions yeah, there was a niners twist last night as the performance beach blanket babylon in San Francisco. Actors play coach jim harbaugh, in pleated khakis, of course, along with quarterback, Colin Kaepernick and running back, frank gore, belted out we are the super bowl champions, an ode, of course to queens song, we are the champions. 49er fans are showing off their playoff pride. Check out Danny Franklin with little paris already a fan at three weeks old. Check out these little guys. Got the game face on, ready for sundays big matchup. Send us your fan photos to you report at kgotv. Com. And time to step up, niners fans, seattle is ahead in the battle of the base. We have a competition going with the abc station in seattle to see who has the best fans. Seattles elliott bay or San Francisco bay, to prove that nobodys got it better than us go to the abc7 News Facebook page and like this post. Whoever has the most likes by kickoff sunday wins. Catch them off guard, coming from behind that is our whole strategy, i think. Go, go like the page now on abc7s facebook page. What joe montana and steve young were known for. Exactly. Theres going to be lot of viewing parties, mike. How is the weather going to be . Hopefully, tvs outside. Absolutely. Bad the niners dont have any green in their color scheme, nice to paint the front yard green if they make it when they make it to the super bowl, since it is dying from the dryness. The forecast, keeps trending drier, mostly cloudy, still cooler here with upper 40s, dropping into the mid40s by the time the game is over. Look at what is going on down south. You can see around the monterey bay, we have a red flag warning, high fire danger there until noon. For us, look at these temperatures, alum rock, 52 los altos hills, 50. 64 in the hills. Warm air lurking up in the hills. Down in the valley, throw mid40s, 40, cupertino, sunnyvale, campbell 4142, saratoga, 44 in Santa Theresa and san jose. Mid to upper 30s everywhere else, the sap ramon valley, 33, sebastopol. San carlos, 43, redwood city, 46. The mid50s, san pablo. Check out half moon bay, 45 degrees. Right now thats 22 degrees cooler than yesterday. Most of us are a little bit cool they are morning. We head into the afternoon hours, we are going to have record highs down south, 72, san jose, 76, gilroy, only 75 today, santa cruz. 72, redwood city, 73, record highs. Warm spot along the coast, half moon bay. Lows tonight, cooler inland, 30s around the bayshore, to the coast. Look at that accuweather sevenday forecast, not going to be quite as warm, we will make a run near records tomorrow but then you can see we are down about 4 will four to six degrees by sunday, hold steady through the holiday and pretty much all the way next week, temperatures above average and dry. Have a good one. Heres leyla. Got big problems in duplin and pleasanton, south along 680 what is happening out here, there is a truck carrying two trailers full of dirt and rocks westbound side of 580 t started losing its load. They are losing their gavel. And cars are spinning out. West bound 580 to the 680 connecter, a solo vehicle spinout. The truck has traveled south at pleasanton toward the sunol grade and farther south past mission boulevard. This is a really long stretch of freeway that a lot of debris on the roads. Caltrans will come out and clean this up. We dont know if it will turn into a sigalert yet it is enough, significant enough it is causing many cars damage and also an accident. Be careful if you plan on making the trek between 580 and 680, owl in a southbound direction. Take a live look outside, 680 north of duplin, your drive through Pleasant Hill and into walnut creek. See 680, makes its trek toward the 24 junction, everything moving fine out there kristen, erin . Thank you very much. 4 50. Smoking has a serious impact on your health but a new report says it is a lot more dangerous than we thought. Coming up, the new medical condition it is being linked to. Google making a difference for diabetics, [dad] [lau [boy] mom ughs] [mom] yes . [boy] whoa,whoa,whoa. [mom and dad] [laughing] [boy] whoa,whoa,whoa. [mom] youve got two left feet,boo. 4 52 how they start the day in Southern California sometimes, 101 the Los Angeles Area this is a slowspeed chase. You see that pickup truck, you can just make out the lights of it right there. Meandering down 101 height way patrol following, apparently, made a couple of detours so far, hasnt pulled over w he dont know what exactly he is wanted for. Police decided to hang back for right now and decide what to do next. We will keep you updated as this unfolds. Bring your a tight, Restaurant Week begins today in oakland. For a fourth year in a rocker the citys top restaurants will be offering price fixe lunches and dipper starting at 20. More than 50 restaurants are taking part, spoon sponsored by visit oakland in partnership with yelp east bay. The Restaurant Week goes through sunday i january 26th. New this morning, when it comes to job interviews, some Bay Area Companies top the list of those with the most interesting questions. Crazy, depending on your point of view. According to glass door, which looks at companies interview processes. A candidate at cupertinobased am, if you were a pizza delivery man, how would you benefit from sis senators yahoo in sunnyvale made the list. If you were on an island and could only bring three things, what would you bring . Finally, why is a tennis ball fuzzy . That interview question came from xerox. In case you were wondering, the fuzzy felt allows the racquet string to grip the ball better and therefore, you can put a lot of spin on it. A lot of thinking for this morning, right . I knew that one. The first two kind of stumped me though. You know, you got to bring snag reproduces, have food and maybe milk, things like that the scissor one. 28 , that was our extreme drought last week, let me show you whats doing this week, 63 , more than doubled. So 63 of the state is covered in an extreme drought, why we have red flag warnings for the see area. Who has ever heard of a high fire danger in january in the high country and that extends all the way down to so cal. Temperatures upper 70s, mid80s, low to middle 70s through mon ter rachel record my tahoe, 61, be around 58. Notice to mid to upper 50s at tahoe, freezing cold at night, no snow all seven days. Leyla . Mike, following this dump truck that has been losing its gravel load in duplin, pleasanton, sunol. Now, we are getting some sketchy details from chp as far as how that is actually affecting your drive as you continue a little bit farther down 680. So, if you are going to be traveling along 580 to 680ing you will find a solo vehicle spinout there, it did cause enough damage. Continue through 680, find more travel, caltrans cleaning things up. San jose, 280, a quiet commute there, from highway 17. Thank you very much. 4 55. Smoking may be worse for you than first thought. A Study Released by the surgeon fen finds half a million americans die each year from diseases, including die beat tease, colorectal canser and liver cancer all linked to smoking and it doesnt stop there. The report blames cigarettes for causing rheumatoid arthritis, vision troubles, even erectile dysfunction. This is the first study to state flat out that smoking causes these illnesses and it comes 50 years after the first Surgeon Generals report on smoking. Google is working on a device that could be huge for diabetics. Its a contact lens that monitors glucose levels in your tears it has a tiny glucose center and wireless transmitter, certainly much more convenient, less invasive than drawing flood from your finger. This video from the device is founded by google. Still about five years away from being available to the public. A local Wildlife Group is calling for a change in the way certain yogurt containers are made to save small animals. This is video of a skunk with its head caught in a yo play yogurt cup last week in los gatos. Small animals can easily get their heads locked in the cup because of the rim at the top. Members of Wildlife Emergency Service want the public to pressure general mills, the maker of yo play to redesign the container. 4 57, breaking news in San Francisco where a house fire sends three people to the hospital. Next at 5 00, live for the dramatic action residents also to take to escape the flames. Wildfire continues to threaten homes in Southern California as a judge makes a dramatic move to keep the men accused of starting it behind bars. The state of the city address this morning. The unusual location he has chosen to lay out his Top Priorities for the year ahead. Equal access to health care. Welcome to covered california. Now, you can no longer be denied coverage because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com this is the creamy chicken corn chowder. I mean, look at it. So indulgent. Did i tell you i am on the. [ both ] Chicken Pot Pie diet me too [ male announcer ] so indulgent, youll never believe theyre light. 100calorie progresso light soups. [ female announcer ] at 100 calories, not all food choices add up. Some are giant. Some not so giant. When managing your weight, bigger is always better. Ho ho ho green giant breaking news comes from San Francisco overnight. Im eric thomas. Im kristen sze. Firefighters are mopping up after battling a fire in the bay view. One home has burped and there are several injuries. Abc7 News ReporterAmy Hollyfield is live at the scene. Amy . Reporter this fire is out but it did Severe Damage to the home. See for yourself. Look that the video of what firefighters saw when they arrived at about 3 30 this morning. A home on fire here in the bay view on apollo at williams. The firefighters were told that some people were trapped inside but when they got here, they say the three residents who lived inside had climbed out a first floor window. So, they all safely escaped. This was a cot amtype back house that was on fire and there are two units in it. The